9General purpose grease

[37chief]

When I first started my tractor work, I did disking and mowing. Now I just do mowing. Dad had 5 gal pails of grease left over from his farming years. I used that for a few years. Later on someone gave me a lot of white grease. I think it was lithium since it was a white color. I have been using it a lot. It seamed to be doing a good job. Now over 40 years later the white lithium is almost gone. What grease do you use? Stan

 

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Depends on the application, many different types for many different applications.

Just kidding, what's usually on the shelf is what gets used

 

[joeysmith]

The cheapest I find

 

[Fixingfarmer]

wheel bearing grease for roller bearings and ball bearings often is a red hi temp grease

Moly for steel pins in a loader or similar tasks there was a moly paste we would coat wheel loader pins with that’s the real deal when you have a pin out so once it’s in I just use a black grease with moly in it.

The paste won’t go away as fast most wheel loaders lived outside and rain is the enemy of grease

Those are the 2 greases we use. Had some trouble with polyurea grease in combine bearings they were not lasting very long

 

[joeysmith]

Ahh
Yea I should of specified
Around the hobby farm cheapest i find
For equipment that runs 8/10/16 hours a day is another story

 

[deere4040]

TRC crown and chassis 880. https://www.texasrefinery.com/products/greases/880-crown-chassis-grease/

Only grease known on this farm for over 60 years. Used for every application. Have worn out pto yokes with original universals still going strong. repair facility wondered what grease we used because universals should have given away decades earlier before yokes wore.

 

[Mule Meat]

Lucas Red N Tacky has been my choice for many many years.

 

[TomA in CA]

I like a light amber grease that helps clean the bearing and doesn't leave a sticky mess. I don't like the sticky red stuff. I always open the tube to see what I am buying. Slippery good sticky bad. That is just my opinion, maybe for long hard hours and infrequent service sticky is better.

 

[d13series1]

i use red-n-tacky primarily for the anti-washout properties. A lot of 'wet' operation in my clay slick, and most of the tools live outdoors.

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

I go for the cheapest but the dark stuff TSC sells stinks like gear lube and just turns my stomach, so I pay a bit more for the red stuff. For non-greaseable bearings I use the old-fashioned wheel bearing grease in the tub.

 

[MARK ROBKE]

I like Valvoline crimson-it's red colored, and I like the red showing me that something is greased, like when I can't see the grease come out while I'm pumping. Mark.

 

[Fred Werring]

I like Valvoline crimson-it's red colored, and I like the red showing me that something is greased, like when I can't see the grease come out while I'm pumping. Mark.

Trying to remember how far away you are.
Just saw it, know nothing about the guy.
If I was bored and didn't already have a couple cases I might go after some.

Valvoline grease on FB Marketplace

 

[Texasmark]

When I first started my tractor work, I did disking and mowing. Now I just do mowing. Dad had 5 gal pails of grease left over from his farming years. I used that for a few years. Later on someone gave me a lot of white grease. I think it was lithium since it was a white color. I have been using it a lot. It seamed to be doing a good job. Now over 40 years later the white lithium is almost gone. What grease do you use? Stan

I use #2 Red (high temp) in the insertable tube as it works for most everything. I have lithium in the spray cans for sliding things, like attaching different implements to my FEL loader with the Skid Steer QD. I have Moly also, for permanent (long lasting) lube on sliding surfaces, but Chain Lube in the spray can pretty much eliminates that. I forget the name but it's sold by a couple of brothers in California and is in the olive drab spray can. Comes out as a foam and then melts and creeps into chains nicely, plus works good and long lasting on sliding surfaces like sickle bars.

On the "insertable tube grease container" thing. One of the happiest days of my life, many decades ago is when I learned that you didn't have to spoon "cup grease" into your hand held grease gun any more. You buy a gun that accepts the newly out tubes that you just pop the seal and drop into the barrel, screw the head on and away you go......what a marvel!!!!!

 

[MARK ROBKE]

Trying to remember how far away you are.
Just saw it, know nothing about the guy.
If I was bored and didn't already have a couple cases I might go after some.

Valvoline grease on FB Marketplace

Yep, that's what I use - I usually buy mine over in Falmouth, KY at NAPA. A case of 12 will last me 2 years nowadays. Mark.

 

[Texasmark]

I like Valvoline crimson-it's red colored, and I like the red showing me that something is greased, like when I can't see the grease come out while I'm pumping. Mark.

Red is common where I shop indicating high temp additional protection over general purpose. Greenish blue coloring is for watercraft with special anti-rust additives.

 

[300jk]

When I first started my tractor work, I did disking and mowing. Now I just do mowing. Dad had 5 gal pails of grease left over from his farming years. I used that for a few years. Later on someone gave me a lot of white grease. I think it was lithium since it was a white color. I have been using it a lot. It seamed to be doing a good job. Now over 40 years later the white lithium is almost gone. What grease do you use? Stan

I’m a heavy equipment operator for a living. The company I work for supplies us with grease. Schaffers red grease .Thats what I use every day on their equipment. Do I use it here also yes I do for the very little greasing I have to do. It’s in my gun and a couple pumps here and there doesn’t amount to much. They buy it by the pallet of boxes. Have for years. Multi million dollar company with well over 200 pieces of equipment. They don’t care about us taking it as long as it’s used. That being said I’ll grease my mower with it, and my 300 Farmall here with it. At the farm dad bought a bunch of brown grease from tractor supply that’s still around we use on that stuff.

 

[m16ty]

At the end of the day any grease is better than no grease. Lots of people don’t grease as often as they should, mainly because it takes time and it can be a messy job.

My local NAPA carries the Lucas Red-N-Tacky and that is what I use.

 

[TomA in CA]

I use #2 Red (high temp) in the insertable tube as it works for most everything. I

On the "insertable tube grease container" thing. One of the happiest days of my life, many decades ago is when I learned that you didn't have to spoon "cup grease" into your hand held grease gun any more. You buy a gun that accepts the newly out tubes that you just pop the seal and drop into the barrel, screw the head on and away you go......what a marvel!!!!!

When I first started farming about 1960 I bought grease in 5 gal. pails . We would just stick the cleaned gun barrel into the grease and suck it in. Kind of messy . A neighbor with a AC 60 had an old grease pail that had a bung at the bottom that the gun would screw into. You could get a pump that fit the pail that would fill the gun through a special fitting on the head. Before cartridges grease guns held quite a bit more grease.

 

[mjsnodgrass]

i get most of my grease from the local cat dealer. i use the 3% moly for everything. for wheel bearings i use timken hi temp grease. the cat dealer has the best price around on grease.

 

[Texasmark]

When I first started farming about 1960 I bought grease in 5 gal. pails . We would just stick the cleaned gun barrel into the grease and suck it in. Kind of messy . A neighbor with a AC 60 had an old grease pail that had a bung at the bottom that the gun would screw into. You could get a pump that fit the pail that would fill the gun through a special fitting on the head. Before cartridges grease guns held quite a bit more grease.

Sounds great. I really hated to load a gun with cup grease when it went dry.....I was absolutely thrilled when I saw my first cartridge gun and it went home with me from that store.